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Here is a list of beer descriptions for our beers. If you are interested in having any of our bottled brews shipped direct to you please note that we can only ship to the following sates: Arizona, California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Washington, Wyoming, Wisconsin. YOU MUST BE 21 YEARS OF AGE TO ORDER AND A SIGNATURE OF SOMEONE AT LEAST 21 YEARS OF AGE IS REQUIRED UPON DELIVERY! Prices vary; to order, please call Jo at the Bear Republic Offices to place your order. M-F 8:00-5:00 (PST). Jo@bearrepublic.com


Bottled Brews


Racer 5 IPA
ABV: 7.0% IBU: 75 OG: 1.070 Color: Golden
This hoppy IPA is a full bodied beer brewed with American pale and crystal malts and heavily hopped with Chinook, Cascade, Columbus and Centennial. There's a trophy in every glass.
12oz. 6 pack | 12 oz. 12 pack | 22oz. | keg

Racer 5 IPA

2009 Great American Beer Festival® American-Style Strong Pale Ale – GOLD
2009 Colorado State Fair – Best of Show
2006 Great American Beer Festival® American-Style Strong Pale Ale – SILVER
2005 Great American Beer Festival® American-Style Strong Pale Ale – SILVER
1999 Great American Beer Festival® India Pale Ale - GOLD


Red Rocket
ABV: 6.8% IBU: 67 OG: 1.067 Color: Deep Copper Red
Red Rocket is bastardized Scottish style red ale that traces its origins to our homebrew roots. This full bodied and hoppy brew finishes on the palate with sweet, caramel malt flavors.

12oz. 6 pack | 22oz. | keg

Red Rocket

2009 California State Fair - SILVER
1999 Great American Beer Festival® Other Strong Ales or Lagers - SILVER
1998 Great American Beer Festival® Other Strong Ales - SILVER


Hop Rod Rye Ale
ABV: 8.0% IBU: 90+ OG 1.074 Color: Amber Red
A high gravity IPA brewed with 18% rye malt, hop Rod Rye has a floral hop aroma and subtle caramel notes with a slightly earthy and spicy rye character.
12oz. 4 pack | 22oz. | keg

Hop Rod Rye Ale

2009 California State Fair – GOLD
2003 California State Fair – GOLD
2002 Real Ale Festival (Chicago) – GOLD


Big Bear
ABV: 8.1% IBU: 68 OG: 1.074 Color: Black
Big Bear is a big, black stout you can sink your teeth into. The bold, roasty caramel malt flavor is balanced by Centennial and Cascade hops.
22oz. | keg

Big Bear

2009 LA International Beer Competition – GOLD
2007 Great American Beer Festival® American-Style Stout – SILVER
2002 World Beer Cup - GOLD


Peter Brown Tribute Ale
ABV: 6.5% IBU: 30 OG: 1.064 Color: Brown
Peter Brown Tribute Ale is a malty American Brown Ale, brewed with molasses, brown sugar and hopped with Cascade and Centennial. It’s just the way Pete would have wanted it.
22oz. | keg

Peter Brown Tribute Ale

2009 North American Brewers Association – GOLD
2006 Great American Beer Festival® Brown Porter – BRONZE
2004 Great American Beer Festival® Brown Porter – GOLD


XP Pale Ale
ABV: 5.4% IBU: 55 OG: 1.054 Color: Straw Pale
XP is short for exceptional Pale Ale. This light golden ale balances the malt and hops for a smooth, drinkable beer that compliments any meal.
22oz. | keg

XP Pale Ale

2008 Colorado State Fair - GOLD
2006 California State Fair – 1st
2003 Real Ale Fest (Chicago) – BRONZE


Specialty Brews
These brews have limited availability and are draft only.

Apex
ABV: 7.5% IBU: 65 OG: 1.075 Color: Light Copper
Webster's Dictionary defines apex as the highest point, the tip or climax. This experimental IPA allows our brewing staff to play and search for that ever elusive new hop blend and balance. Our brewers are eternally searching for the perfect Apex.

2009 Night of the Living Ales Cask Festival – 3rd place People’s Choice
2008 California State Fair – SILVER
2006 Great American Beer Festival® American-Style India Pale Ale – SILVER

Barrel Aged Old Baba Yaga
ABV: 11.5%
Old Baba Yaga, the witch who guarded the fountain of life and death, held dominion over a wintery forest landscape. This beer is brewed to both celebrate winter's bony fingers and represent some of the power of Baba Yaga's fountain. The black depths of this Russian Imperial Stout hold coffee, licorice, and bittersweet chocolate flavors. This beer weighs in at 11.5 percent ABV and is aged in French Oak Cabernet barrels.

Barrel Aged Red Rocket
ABV: 6.8%
Our Red Rocket Ale, aged for six months in bourbon barrels that we have used for three previous beers. Brettanomyces, or “Brett,” a type of wild yeast that often makes a home inside used barrels, adds barnyard notes to the malty character of Red Rocket.

Black Bart
ABV: 6.0% IBU: 50 OG: 1.064 Color: Black
This Irish style dry stout is brewed with dark, roasted malts and fresh hops. Dark in color with bittersweet tones, this ale is smoother than its dark color suggests.

1999 California State Fair – SILVER
1998 California State Fair - BRONZE

Black Mamba
ABV: 6.1% IBU: 27 Color: Dark Mahogany
The first of our small batches brewed on the old Wild Horse brewing system, this black beer is a twist on the classic Belgian Wit. It is brewed with three kinds of wheat and chocolate and crystal malts. Chocolate and clove notes are its major flavors; it finishes dry.

2008 California State Fair - BRONZE

Black Raven Porter
ABV: 5.3% IBU: 30 Color: Black
Black Raven Porter is a dark and rich traditional porter served on nitro for an extra creamy mouth feel.

1997 Beer Fest Invitational – GOLD
1997 California State Fair - SILVER

Black Rye
ABV: 7.2%
What do you get when you age an Imperial Stout for six months in an old rye-whiskey oak barrel? We call it Black Rye. Served cask style, we're sure you'll enjoy its robust roasty heartiness courted by a vanilla-like whiskey undertone that's sure to put hair on your paws!

Booster Rocket
ABV: 9.2% IBU: 100 OG: 1.098 Color: Deep Garnet
Booster Rocket is a double hopped, double malted rocket for a boost of flavor and alcohol. This was barrel aged for six months in a bourbon barrel

BRBC Tripel
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 25 OG: 1.092 Color: Gold
Inspired by the Belgian tradition and brewed with Bear Republic style, this ale has a spicy and fruity yeast character and a malty, caramel finish.


Chardonnay Hop Rod
ABV: 7.6% IBU: 75
Our Hop Rod Rye, aged three months in Alexander Valley Chardonnay barrels, and fermented with 5% chardonnay juice.


Carburetor
ABV: 7.4%
An exceptionally malty Doppelbock with a subtle hint of smokiness balanced with Noble hops.

Crazy Ivan
ABV: 7.0% IBU: 50 OG: 1.068 COLOR: Garnet
This copper colored beer is a blend of Racer 5 and Red Rocket, and is fermented with a Belgian yeast strain, giving a characteristic spicy clove aroma. The American hop bitterness and aroma balances the Belgian character. This hybrid beer is so unusual that we decided to call it Crazy Ivan, after the unexpected left turn we took in making (and naming) it. Dive, Dive!

Cuvee du Bubba
ABV: 5.8% IBU: 35 OG: Blend Color: Amber
A custom blend of the beers of Bear Republic, Cuvee de Bubba is refermented by wild yeasts in selected wine barrels. The Cuvee is an amber brew with a bouquet of stone fruits and boasts a complex flavor profile of malts backed by a hint of tobacco, and topped off with a tart cherry pie finish. Walk on the wild side.

Double Aught Lager
ABV: 4.2% IBU: 35 OG: 1.044 Color: Straw
In the late 1800s, American brewing pioneers made a Pilsner to be proud of. It was made with 100 percent barley malt, and hopped with noble hop varieties for a rich smooth, yet crisp taste. This is our version.

2009 California State Fair – SILVER
2009 West Coast Beer Festival – 3rd
2006 Great American Beer Festival® Bohemian-Style Pilsner – BRONZE

Double Rocket
ABV: 9.2% IBU: 60 OG: 1.098 Color: Red Amber
Red Rocket taken to the limit and pushed on through to the other side, this Imperial Red Ale boasts caramel and roasty malty character and distinct hop flavor and aroma.

El Oso
ABV: 4.5% IBU: 25 OG: 1.047 Color: Copper
Spanish for the bear, this is a copper colored lager with a unique light taste with slight caramel hints.

2009 California State Fair - SILVER
2008 Great American Beer Festival® American-Style Amber Lager – BRONZE

English IPA
ABV: 6.8% IBU: 65 Color: Copper
This copper-colored IPA is crafted in the English style, but wouldn't be a Bear Republic beer without our signature hop punch. The firm bitterness and spicy Golding hop aroma is tempered by fine British malts and a soft yeast character.

EZ Ryder
ABV: 5.0% IBU: 25 Color: Copper
This is the world’s first 100 percent rye malt based beer. It is copper colored with a hop spiciness
that compliments the rye character. Brewed as a true experiment, this session beer is a real crowd pleaser.


Flash Point Porter
ABV: 6.0% IBU: 35 OG: 1.068 Color: Light Black
A collaborative brew with award winning homebrewer Greg Rasmussen, Flash Point Porter is full of
bittersweet chocolate and coffee notes.


Global Kölsch
ABV: 4.5% IBU: 25 OG: 1.051 Color: Straw
From the Kolsch German city of Cologne, this beer is light and sweet in flavor,
"almost like fresh baked bread." This beer has been made for hundreds of years for your enjoyment!


Grandma’s Homegrown 2008
ABV: 5.4% IBU: 50+ OG: 1.050 Color: Amber
Our wet hop beer is brewed with home grown hops and Chinook hops from the Yakima Valley.
A balanced malt profile and pale color allow the inherent grassy, floral characteristics of the undried,
or “wet” hops to shine. Like a taste of the hop fields.


Go Cart Racer
ABV: 6.0%
A tasty pale ale brewed with the same profile as our award winning Racer 5 IPA, but in a lower alcohol format.
Dry hopped with Amarillo hops for a pleasant hop aroma.


Greenhouse Lager
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 35 OG: 1.053 Color: Straw
Green House Lager is a crisp Bohemian lager that balances bitterness with a pleasant malt finish.

2008 California State Fair – SILVER


Hefeweizen
ABV: 4.5% IBU: 20 OG: 1.048 Color: Gold
This traditional German Hefeweizen is a light and refreshing ale served unfiltered and full of flavor.


Heritage
ABV: 7.6% IBU: 75 OG: 1.078 Color: Deep Copper
Bear Republic’s take on this classic style is intensely malty with caramel sweetness and biscuit undertones.
True to Norgrove Scottish heritage, if you drink enough, you will hear bag pipes.

2000 California State Fair – GOLD
1997 Beer Fest invitational – BRONZE


Jack London ESB
ABV: 6.5% IBU: 22 OG: 1.054 Color: Light Amber

Extra Special Bitter; brewed in the traditional English style, with house ale yeast and English hops.

2009 California State Fair – SILVER
1998 World Beer Championship – BRONZE


Kickstand
ABV: 6.5%
Crafted in the style of pre-prohibition American pilsner, this lager is brewed with a blend of two row barley malt, pilsner malt, and good old American corn. Floral hop character comes from the exclusive use of American Liberty hops. Golden straw colored with thick white foam and a mild hop profile, this beer is light enough to complement any meal, but big enough to be noticed.

Late Harvest Fest Lager
ABV: 6.3% IBU: 25 OG: 1.065 Color: Copper
Our traditional Oktoberfest beer, brewed to be enjoyed through out the fall. Big dry malty biscuit flavors are balanced by an alcohol warmth and sweetness. Crisp hop bitterness and Noble hop aroma round off this seasonal lager. Prost!

2009 California State Fair – SILVER

Lindey’s Mild
ABV: 3.2% IBU: 18 Color: Light Amber
A true English style session beer, easy drinking with a creamy finish

Long Boat Lager
ABV: 5.5% IBU: 30 Color: Blonde
Brewed in the tradition of the great Danish lagers (think Carlsberg,) this crisp lager would have inspired marauding Vikings. Crisp malt character and hop bitterness are complemented by a slight mineral saltiness

Mach 10
ABV: 8.7% IBU: 75 Color: Dirty Blonde
This extreme Double Imperial IPA is brewed with 1st Gold hops, a cross between UK Golding's and a wild English hop. Bitter, malty, with a definite alcohol note, this beer is one of our most assertive and extreme.

Non-Commitment Blonde
ABV: 4.0% IBU: 25 OG: 1.042 Color: Blonde/Straw
No Commitment Blonde, simply for the fact that this ultra-light ale offers a nice departure from the robust, hoppy, higher alcohol ale.

2008 California State Fair – SILVER

Nor Cal
ABV: 5.1% IBU: 55+ OG: 1.042 Color: Golden Copper
Inspired by Northern California’s brewing history, this California Bitter is as inviting as the Redwoods. Smooth and drinkable, this ale has a well rounded malt character accented by Cascade and Centennial dry hops.

Old Scoutter’s Barleywine
ABV: 9.5% IBU: 102 OG: 1.095 Color: Deep Gold
This American version of the classic British winter warmer was named after brewery dog Scoutt, who was a box-spring (half Boxer, half Springer Spaniel). It is packed with hop flavors of orange, lemon, and pine, and balanced with crystal malts and alcohol warmth.

2008 California State Fair – GOLD
2001 North American Brewer’s Award – GOLD

Oso De Oro
ABV: 4.2% IBU: 18 OG: 1.044 Color: Blonde
A light golden Mexican Lager. Made with a smooth Negro Modelo Yeast. Crisp, clean and great for summer.

Oso Negro
ABV: 5.5%
Our nod to the classic Mexican Dark Beer, this dark lager is rich with roasted and caramel characters. Lightly hopped and bittered, this smooth dark beer will have you going to the dark side.

Oso Rojo Lager
ABV: 6.4% IBU: 35 OG: 1.062 Color: Red
Red Bear, our red lager is crisp, yet rich with caramel notes balanced by a wonderful Noble hop aroma.

Racer X
ABV: 8.9% IBU: 72 OG: 1.084 Color: Red
Racer X is a bold ale that follows English brewing traditions, but with a California twist. A double IPA with bold hops and a balanced finish, Racer 5's big brother. There are 5+ pounds of hops per barrel!

2009 California State Fair – SILVER
2009 San Diego International Beer Competition – 2nd
2009 West Coast Beer Fest - GOLD

Rebellion
ABV: 6.4% IBU: 55 OG: 1.060 Color: Dark Orange
Rebellion is a single hop pale ale brewed to showcase different hop varieties. Always brewed with the same malt base and IBU’s, the character of the hop really shines through.

Red Leader
ABV: 5.9%
This beer is Bear Republic's interpretation of Baltic Porter - deep red in color, low bitterness, rich malt flavor and aroma, with subtle undertones of stone fruit and toasted biscuit. This full bodied beer has a balanced malt sweetness without begin cloying. Finishes with a hint of roastiness.

Ricardo’s Red Wheat
ABV: 5.0% OG: 1.052
A non-traditional wheat ale using 45% red northern wheat malt and our house yeast. It has a caramel nose and a dry finish with bold wheat flavors.

1998 California State Fair – BRONZE

Rye Pale Ale
ABV: 5.8%
This Rye Pale Ale has a very dry finish. The 30 percent rye along with the hops give this ale its bitterness. The dry hops give it a California twist. Please enjoy!

Sotoyome
ABV: 7.0%
Sotoyome is a dry, tart and fruity amber ale matured in oak barrels from a local winery and spontaneously refermented in the cask with wild yeast.


The Grizz
ABV: 9.5%
Don’t be fooled by this innocent beast. Handcrafted by the Bear Republic Brewing Team this Belgian Brown incorporates a trifecta of sugars including our homemade candied syrup. Wild and untamed this full bodied beer starts out sweet and finishes with notes of cloves and nutmeg. Enjoy in moderation; tread lightly!

Trebuchet
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 25 OG: 1.092 Color: Gold
Barrel aged Belgian Tripel aged in 100 year old cognac barrel for 16 months.

Tripel
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 25 OG: 1.092 Color: Gold
Belgian Tripel brewed with Mexican brown sugar and Belgian yeast.

Up in Smoke
ABV: 5.3% IBU: 28 Color: Copper
First brewed to commemorate the efforts of firefighters during the Geysers fires, now brewed to acknowledge the heroism of all of California’s firefighters. Brewed with lager yeast at ale temperatures, and copper colored.

2009 Wet Hop IPA
ABV: 7.5%
Our tribute to the annual hop harvest, this IPA was brewed with a blend of American and English malts, and a truckload of hops fresh from the field, including Chinook, Cascade, and Centennial.

Wine Country Wheat
ABV: 4.2% IBU: 20 OG: 1.049 Color: Hazy Straw
Crafted in the Pacific Northwest style, this American Wheat beer is immensely drinkable and perfect to quench a summer thirst. Creamy, cloudy and malty with a mild hop bitterness.

Witbier
ABV: 4.2% IBU: 20 OG: 1.044 Color: Hazy Straw
This traditional white beer is brewed using raw and malted wheat and a Belgian yeast strain. The suspended proteins in the beer cause a hazy or cloudy look to the beer. This thirst quencher is a summer favorite. Cheers!